From economics to technology, what impacts the world impacts the arts.
The Top 10 Arts Policy Stories of 2016
China, Trump, AI: oh my! We’ll remember 2016 with a sigh.
Election 2016 Shakes the Arts World (and Other November Stories)
Plus new regulations in China, equity crowdfunding and impact investing for the masses, and a facelift for Philly libraries.
China Further Fortifies its Virtual Borders (And Other April Stories)
Apple, Disney get the boot as the world’s most populous nation hardens its resistance to Western influences.
AlphaGo Pulls Off the Impossible (And Other March Stories)
Canada doubles down on the arts while China takes a giant step backward for free expression.
MASS MoCA Visionary Has New Vision (and other August Stories)
First, a shuttered electrical plant. Now, an abandoned airport. Next, the world?
Big Tech Wants a Piece of the Performing Arts Action (and other March stories)
Reshaping how people listen to music, buy tickets and find fans.
Nationalism and government support of the arts
Looking beyond our borders shows how other countries handle limited budgets, growing or diminished international stature, and the desire to be competitive.
Late spring public arts funding update
FEDERAL Jane Chu is inching towards nomination as the next NEA Chair, as the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted to approve her candidacy with “no controversy.” Over the past few years, Republicans appear to be content to let the NEA languish in level-funding purgatory rather than continue to whip up theRead More
Dispatches from the East: Museumscapes of Asia
A heat map of museum activity in Asia would show the whole region aglow. At first glance, if you’ve been getting your story from mainstream American media, you might think Asian institutions are becoming just like us, or beating us at our own game: the National Museum of Cambodia recently put its collection online thanksRead More